Profile
Jimmy MG Lim is a software engineer and mentor in London, United Kingdom. Jimmy has worked with a number of institutions including Ministry of Education Singapore, Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd London, University of Kent, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.
He attained Masters "Advance Methods in Computer Science" (University of London, Queen Mary) and co-developed to deliver one of the first Cloud Computing and Green Computing modules in UK. Jimmy is proud to have mentored many high-flying BSc and MSc students who are now working in leading companies such as Eli Lilly, GSK, Cisco, Disney, Morgan Stanley, Accenture, IBM, and Microsoft.
In 2001 he created a micro-studio named "MirageGlobe" where he develops web applications and design work. During other times he is looking into newer ways of rapid application development with Python and Ruby. He is also an active researcher in cloud computing, HCI, machine learning, and oriental cultures.
Interests
- Reading (History) & Audio Books (on the road)
- Classical Music
- Classic Japanese Animation (Hayao Miyazaki)
- Environmental Science (Feng Shui, Ruan Tou and Fei Xing)
- Collecting Interesting Alcoholic Beverages, Stamps, Coins and Lego
- Blogging & Tinkering with Server-side Technologies
Milestones
- "Technology to Business Finalist" UoK 2012
- “Big Ideas Round One Finalist” UoK 2011
- "EPSRC Research Award" EU 2008
- “Jian Nan Temple National Photographic Competition 2nd Prize” Malaysia 2003
- “World's Longest Paper Clip Chain” Guinness Book of Records 1998, 1999, 2000
Publications
- A case to identify information provenance by cross relating data objects with mouse traces. ICCIE Conference France (2013)
- Automatic Association of Documents on the Cloud. UoK EE Conference for Science and Engineering (2012)
- Memristive Systems. UoK EE Conference for Science and Engineering (2012)
- Mobile HBase. UoK EE Conference for Science and Engineering (2012)
- Delayed switching in memristors and memristive systems. IEEE Atlanta USA Speaker (2011)
- Personal Storage Grid Architecture: Consuming Cloud Data Space Resources. International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing, Vol 2, No. 3 (2010)
- Delayed switching in memristors and memristive systems. IEEE Electron Device Letters 31 (7) art. no. 5482202 pp.755-757 (2010)
- A Wireless Online Communication System for Small-Medium Enterprises. ICWI 2002: 665-668 (2002)
Charity and Volunteering
Blog - mirageglobe.blogspot.co.uk
I maintain a blog about technology and education at blogger http://mirageglobe.blogspot.co.uk.
Project - AllDayCity
AllDayCity is my current running project. I have built to investigate methods of relationship of unique objects. It uses methods based on User Behaviour Ontology as a relationship, research and Development for document management and landscaping.
Project - TaoVilla.org
TaoVilla is a Tao culture development project. The project is aimed at Oriental Culture Revitalisation and Conservation.
WebApp - MagicNumber5 (Heroku)
An application for top 5 listing. Note: Takes about 3 seconds for app to spin up.
WebApp - Draw Card (Heroku)
An application for sending a hand drawn card. Note: Takes about 3 seconds for app to spin up.
Past Projects
- Student Tenant (http://www.studenttenant.com)
- QS Scorecard (http://www.topmba.com/scorecard)
- QS MBA School Profiles
- The Global-Workplace (http://www.global-workplace.com)
- EdenGeomancy (http://www.edengeomancy.com/)
- Singapore Rifle Association
- AceTravels Berhad
- AngieGallery Berhad
- GeomanDesignCulture
- China Embassy
Interview by Robot
R: Why is your IRC name MirageGlobe?
J: The vision of beauty is just a versatile as a Mirage; an existence which can only be seen but not touched. The Globe represents a world referring to the Internet that is part of our life.
R: Are there any principles that you religiously follow?
J: For things I do, I aim to break it down to its simpliest form. Stick to a basic design foundation: “Keep it crystal clear, simple and it all becomes self explanatory".
R: Tell us a bit of what you did?
J: My software development hobby started in 2001. It was started off as a personal a portfolio showcase, and then it went on to hosting for a handful of websites and applications. In late 2005, I started to work on hardware and research on various IT web technologies. This led me to currently orchestrating a cloud server at Amazon as a strange hobby of mine. This all happened along side my day job as a developer. I can say its my passion.
- 2012 - Development on Heroku
- 2011 – Development on OpenStack Cloud
- 2009 – Amazon Cloud Server, USA
- 2006 – Virtual Private Server, Germany
- 2004 – Shared hosting with Joomla CMS
- 2002 – Website Design
- 2001 – MirageGlobe Started in Singapore
R: What is your working style?
J: I thrive working in and being a mentor for small development teams (have had quite some experience) in startup environment. Building rapport with clients and using rapid minimal viable development styles as our mantra; build it quick, break it and make it better. I have picked up development techniques as needed in projects, learning as I go.
R: What best describes your area of skill?
J: I think I better go in points...
- IT Consulting & Delivering Training
- Organising & Managing Training Events
- Technical Talks & Teaching (University Level)
- DB Deployment - MongoDB, SQLite, MySQL, MSSQL (in order of preference)
- Language - Ruby WebApps (2yrs), Python(4yrs), Php(11yrs), C(adhoc) and C#(2yrs) (Sometime ago)
- Web Host - Nginx, Cherokee, Apache (in order of preference)
- Infrastructure - Amazon AWS, RackspaceCloud, OpenStack, Heroku
- IT Bounty hunting
R: Any other comments you wish to make?
J: Life is like driving down a one way highway, make stop, enjoy and move on. Live life. Try things, do things and make the most positive of everything.
